Economic Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Petroleum Taxation

   Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

   By Carole Nakhle

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

   Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

   Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

   Series: Regions and Cities

   In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Economic Geography and the Unequal Development of Regions

   By Jean-Claude Prager, Jacques-François Thisse

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   Behind the mystery of economic growth stands another mystery: why do some places fare better than others? Casual evidence shows that sizable differences exist at very different spatial scales (countries, regions and cities). This book aims to discuss the main economic reasons for the existence of...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport

   Governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles

   Edited by Måns Nilsson, Karl Hillman, Annika Rickne, Thomas Magnusson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book is about how societies around the world can accelerate innovation in sustainable transport. It examines the relationship between policy change and the development of technological innovations in low carbon vehicle technologies, including biofuels, hybrid-electric vehicles, electric...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

   From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

   Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K. C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Controversies in Local Economic Development

   Stories, strategies, solutions

   By Martin Perry

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. China and Globalization

   The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, 3rd Edition

   By Doug Guthrie

   Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

   The Governance of the Global Value Chain

   Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

   Series: Regions and Cities

   During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

    The Donbas in Transition

    Edited by Adam Swain

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge